“Get sandy! Use sand as your medium or inspiration today. You or a friend can collect sand for free at the beach or from a sandbox, or you can just work at one of those locations. Craft stores also usually sell colored sand.”

Well, there is no lack of sand around Monterey Bay, so when Napoleon and I went for our walk this morning we picked up one sandwich bag full of “foam line” sand (a mix of sand, shells and other ocean detritus. A very gray and flat water morning had plenty of trail runners and a nice group of ducks at ocean’s edge.